Financial Due Diligence Senior Associate
As a Financial Due Diligence Senior Associate, you'll focus on middle-market transactions, serving dynamic organizations with experienced professionals who bring a full range of advisory services to validate, optimize and create value for the Transaction Advisory Practice all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. Your day-to-day may include :
- Perform in buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory engagements, providing carve-outs and similar services to clients, private equity investors, and asset-based lenders.
- Help organizations realize the potential of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures as well as various transactions within the capital markets.
- Perform financial due diligence on key areas of the income statement and balance sheet.
- Formulate questions and propose basic adjustments based on the identification of key risks and business drivers.
- Lead analysis on key operational data, net working capital, debt, and debt-like items.
- Lead initial drafts of reports (including Quality of Earnings reports) for clients that highlight the key financial findings of potential investments as well as the drivers behind sustainable profits and cash flows.
- Create and design tailored transaction advisory reports specific to key issues such as normalized earnings, valuation model input assumptions, achievability of management's budget, indebtedness considerations, borrowing base calculations, and / or business combinations and carve-out financial statements.
- Team with partners and senior managers on proposals and business development calls.
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
- Supervise, train and mentor associates.
- Assess performance of associates for engagement and year-end reviews.
- Other duties as assigned.
You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities :
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required, advanced degree preferred.2 to 6 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level required.CPA preferred or CPA in process preferred.Solid experience in the following : accounting, audit, or transaction advisory services.Strong current knowledge in US GAAP, GAAS, SEC Reporting, transaction advisory services or mergers and acquisitions.Ability to manage multiple priorities and simultaneous projects in a rapidly growing practice.Strong leadership, business development, recruitment, training, and mentoring skills.Excellent written, presentation, leadership, and interpersonal communications skills.Prior relevant consulting experience preferred.Can travel as needed.About Us At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more : more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support.
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Whether it's your work location, weekly schedule or unlimited flex time off, we empower you with the options to work in the way that best serves your clients and your life.Here, you are supported to prioritize your overall well-being through work-life integration options that work best for you and those in your household.We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different and we think that's a good thing. That's why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you.Benefits : We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that's good thing. That's why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you.
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